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Heman Chong

HEMAN CHONG

This Is a Dynamic List And May Never Be Able To Satisfy Particular Standards For Completeness Singapore Art Museum 10 May–17 August 2025 Singapore
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This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness reads as a survey of artworks by Heman Chong. From artworks first made in 2003 to new works, the exhibition charts his prolific conceptual practice over the last two decades. An invitation into Chong’s incisive use of words, objects, situations, logics and affinities, the exhibition presents his critical and affective interrogation of our shared human condition in the 21st century.

Heman Chong is an artist whose work is located at the intersection between image, performance, situations and writing. Characterised by acerbic wit, Chong’s art address contemporary geopolitics and the infrastructural ironies of our data-driven and networked society. His practice can be read as an imagining, interrogation and sometimes intervention into infrastructure as an everyday medium of politics. His work has been the subject of institutional solo exhibitions at Singapore Art Museum, UCCA Dune, STPI, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Weserburg Museum, Jameel Arts Center, Swiss Institute New York, Art in General, Artsonje Center, Rockbund Art Museum, South London Gallery, NUS Museum, amongst many others. Chong is the co-director and founder (with Renée Staal) of The Library of Unread Books, a library made up of donated books previously unread by their owners. It was recently installed in the Serpentine Pavilion 2024, designed by Minsuk Cho and in 2025, installed for the summer at MOT, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.

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Conceptual art became a crucial framework for me, because I was drawn to a serial way of working.
Heman Chong on the ‘Deeply Political’ Nature of Time
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Heman Chong on the ‘Deeply Political’ Nature of Time Conversation Heman Chong on the ‘Deeply Political’ Nature of Time In light of his career‑charting institutional shows, curators Kathleen Ditzig and June Yap attempt to tease out Chong’s relationship to technology and ‘the ghosts of futures we once believed in’. Read the story
About the Artist

Heman Chong, a pivotal figure in contemporary art, is an artist, curator, and writer. His conceptually driven work, often exploring language, books, and everyday systems, has garnered international recognition. He represented Singapore at the 2003 Venice Biennale and continues to exhibit widely, including a 2025 survey at the Singapore Art Museum and the acclaimed Serpentine Pavilion presentation of The Library of Unread Books in London in 2024.

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About the Gallery

Singapore Art Museum is a leading contemporary art museum located at Tanjong Pagar Distripark.

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Singapore Art Museum contemporary art institution in Singapore
Singapore Art Museum
39 Keppel Rd, #01-02 Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore, Singapore
+65 66979 730
http://www.singaporeartmuseum.sg

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